Graphic footage of alleged traffickers' police interview

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Graphic footage aired on television networks tonight shows four
Australian drug trafficking suspects stricken by shock and debating
what to do next after their arrests in Bali.

The police video footage shows the Australians being marched
away by police and questioned following their arrests on
Sunday.

All are accused of trying to import heroin into Australia on a
flight from Denpasar to Sydney.

The Ten network tonight played a police video showing Marty
Stephens, from Wollongong, urging one of his co-accused, Newcastle
woman Renae Lawrence, to name the people allegedly responsible for
the drug trade.

"What's the point anyway ... because if we dob them in ... if we
dob them in they kill our family and we're dead anyway.

"Don't tell them and they'll just kill us instead and leave our
families alone."

Police allege Lawrence claimed that she needed the money from
trafficking heroin to stop drug lords from killing her family.

The video shows the Australians stripped almost naked with what
is alleged to be heroin taped to their bodies.

It shows police removing the substance from Lawrence's waist and
legs, then weighing 2.7 kilograms of it.

Matthew Norman, 18, tells the police he's a labourer, while
Michael William Czugak tells them he was born in Malaysia.

Czugaj and Scott Anthony Rush, both 19, both of Brisbane,
Stephens, 29, of Wollongong and Lawrence, 27, were detained in the
airport's boarding area allegedly with a total of 10.9 kilograms of
heroin strapped to their bodies.

In contrast to these suspects' obvious shock at being arrested,
Andrew Chan, the 21-year-old Sydney man accused of being the
mastermind behind the alleged drug operation, appears to joke with
customs officers who ask him for a light.

The video also shows scales, more of what is alleged to be
heroin and tape found in a hotel room.

Norman, 18, was arrested at the hotel with three other suspects
- Brisbane man Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen, 27, and Sydney men Myuran
Sukumaran, 24, and Si Yi Chen, 20.